NOTES AND QUERIES. I I I 



" C. 20 per cent, for plantation poplars ; grey poplars ; 



and pine. 

 " D. 25 per cent, for open-grown poplars; pine; silver 



fir (elevation 1500 ft. to 3500 ft.)." 



The writer has used the tables prepared under this method, 

 and has found their results quite accurate. Again, however, 

 experience and judgment must be called into play. 



The writer, who has had a rather wide experience in the 

 preparation and use of Tree Volume Tables, can see that 

 the introduction of a more direct system of timber surveying 

 in Great Britain, such as is incorporated in the suggestion 

 of J. F., can only result in the efficient simplifying of the very 

 unnecessarily tedious and complicated procedure at present in 

 use. 



After all, results are the thing, and tree volumes can 

 be secured just as accurately, and certainly much more 

 rapidly, either by the use of theoretic or True Volume 

 Table. 



The goal, of course, should be the presentation of a compre- 

 hensive set of General Volume Tables, equipped with all the 

 collateral site class coefficients and utilisation factors. 



L. M. E. 



The Highland and Agricultural Society and 

 Home Timber. 



The Highland and Agricultural Society have done much in 

 the past to encourage home forestry, and that they believe in 

 the utility of home-grown timber is shown by their recent action 

 in adopting a motion submitted by Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart and 

 seconded by Colonel Carruthers of Dormont. Sir Hugh sub- 

 mitted that the committee which deals with the contracts for the 

 erection of the showyard should direct the attention of con- 

 tractors to the importance of using home timber, other things 

 being equal. He said it was common knowledge that in some 

 quarters there was a prejudice against home timber. Home- 

 grown timber for the purpose in view was quite as good as any 

 foreign timber. He desired that the products of this country 

 should not be placed at a disadvantage. 



